So i'll never forget the fist day i got it i remember waking up and going to the bathroom seeing my face bursting with 3 or 4 new zits hell had come... i'm currently 19 years old and threw the seven years that i have dealt with this condition it has impacted my life in a very profound way, really in nearly every aspect. in the early years when i was in middle school it was hell i had no idea how to deal with this i was just a boy and to be dealing with this truly was hell for me. i went on to high school and still didn't really know how to deal with it. i just kept my head down avoided people as much as i could, and just isolated my self as much as possible. so that went on pretty much until i graduated. now at 19 i refuse to go to college until i my skin is good enoph for it, so in the mean time im going to have to find a job because i was recently let go on my first official one on Saturday. ahh it was a shit job anyway lol. sanitation cleaning up being wet and miserable all day fuck that haha so i'm obviously going to have to go out into the world and find me a job, do realize that i live downtown of a major city so people do tend to have their heads up their asses in my opinion. i also want to say that my skin has slowly been improving sense my 18th birthday but i still have scabs and pigmentation marks as well as large open pores. so i still have some way to go till i look somewhat normal. the point is people still point out my flaws whenever i go to public places, not directly to me but they know i can hear them they do this on purpose obviously. so what do i do when this happens? well sometime's i'll just smile and act it if i don't care or din't hear anything which to me isn't hard because i really don't give a shit lol the year's of experience has forged an emotional barrier that reflect any sort of verbal abuse and not just about acne but really about any type of negativity. i just don't give a f%#k, now obviously not everyone can do this, the only reason i can is because of my experience and the fact that my face isn't as bad as it use to be and even so i still have problems going to public places sometimes it's not easy at all. i can't control what people say so i just remember that words cant hurt you not physically anyway.. to me that's all i care about lol i can't afford to think otherwise kid i have acne ;=:.